Eric K. Blumenfeld

• Defend and advise an international testing services provider in a lawsuit in which the plaintiff, a major North American toy distributor, is seeking more than $100 million in damages for a nationwide recall of a product that sickened several children in 2007
• Defend an international testing services provider against injured plaintiffs and a national retailer in a series of six lawsuits involving substantial injuries caused by a tabletop tiki torch and related torch fuel.  To date, we have secured dismissals on dispositive motions in three of the cases.
• Defend a leading US veterinary pharmaceutical manufacturer in a lawsuit involving a license agreement
• Represented an international manufacturer of home appliances and home electronics to enforce a master services agreement with a vendor and to defend against the vendor’s claims of employee raiding
• Defend an international pharmaceutical manufacturer in nationwide litigation involving a prescription diet drug
• Defend a leading auction house in litigation involving a guarantee agreement between the auction house and the purchaser of an art work
• Represented the SIPA Trustee for the liquidation of MF Global, Inc. by designing a system to process more than 27,000 customer claims in one year’s time and by heading a team of attorneys to implement the claims review
• Represented the Jersey City Museum as first chair at a trial against the City of Jersey City and secured a declaratory judgment confirming that the Museum owned all of the works in its collection
• Defended an international testing services provider and secured pre-answer dismissals of two lawsuits involving fatal injuries resulting from garments catching fire
• Defended a leading US pharmaceutical manufacturer in nationwide litigation involving a prescription anti-inflammatory drug, in part by helping to coordinate and analyze the affirmative discovery of approximately 60,000 claimants
• Successfully defended a large pharmaceutical manufacturer by co-authoring the brief in In re Vioxx Litigation, 928 A.2d 935 N.J. (2007), a seminal case clarifying the doctrine of forum non conveniens, in which New Jersey’s Appellate Division affirmed the client-defendant’s right to litigate the claims of foreign plaintiffs in their country of residence
• Successfully defended one of the largest law firms in New Jersey by co-authoring the brief in Borteck v. Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP, 844 A.2d 521 (N.J. 2004), in which the New Jersey Supreme Court held that the defendant law firm’s retirement plan was enforceable under Rule of Professional Conduct 5.6
• Successfully defended the corporate trustee of a charitable testamentary trust in In re Estate of Katz, 2004 WL 104578 (N.J. App. Div. 2004), which protected trust funds from a challenge by the testator’s daughter

Professional Experience

• Associate, Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP, 1999 – 2005
• Law clerk to the Honorable Naomi G. Eichen, Appellate Division, Superior Court of New Jersey, 1998 – 1999
• Intern to the Honorable Nicholas H. Politan, US District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1997
• Intern to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Consumer Affairs, 1996

Awards

• The Legal 500 United States for Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action Defense: Consumer Products (including Tobacco), 2023
• New Jersey Super Lawyers “Rising Star” 2007
• New Jersey Super Lawyers “Rising Star” 2006